On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:26:01 -0800, ajohnson wrote:
> "N. Miller" wrote:
>> On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:22:11 -0800, ajohnson wrote:
>>> I have work e-mail from Exchange and a couple of home e-mails with POP3. I
>>> want to access the home e-mails when I am offline from Exchange. I am not
>>> using Cached mode (i.e., no .ost, just .pst) and want to stay that way. When
>>> offline, Send/Receive seems to go check the POP3 accounts for mail, but no
>>> new mail is put into my Personal Folder Inbox. I have tried changing the POP3
>>> mail delivery to a separate .pst file Inbox, but that doesn't work either.
>>> Help!
>> You don't. You have to be able to connect to the POP3 server to fetch the
>> email, which requires that you be online.
> Whether I'm online with Exchange or not doesn't (or shouldn't) have any
> bearing on whether I can connect to the POP3 e-mail accounts or not. In fact,
> I can send e-mails through them when Outlook is "offline", so I know that
> Outlook is connecting. And, I get no errors when it tries to do an SMTP
> receive to the POP3 accounts. The problem is that the e-mails that I know are
> on the POP3 server are not put into the PST Inbox which Outlook has access to.
>
> I found a partial workaround in another post. I can create a second Outlook
> profile which only contains the POP3 accounts and does not contain the
> Exchange account. This allows me to get mail from the POP3 account when
> Outlook is "offline". However, I have to leave e-mails on the POP3 accounts
> for a period of time so they will be picked up by my BlackBerry. When I
> switch profiles, the new profile doesn't seem to know that the POP3 e-mails
> have already been retrieved so it retrieves them again. That's a little
> inconvenient, but acceptable. I just need to delete the duplicate e-mails
> from my Inbox.
>
> However, Outlook gives enough control over the parameters that I think all
> this should work without the workaround ... and I believe that this must be
> an Outlook bug.
I guess I am not clear about the concept of "working online". I was under
the impression that you had to be "working online" to reach a remote server;
even if the remote server is just another computer parked out in the garage
(as is the case with my server, Mercury/32, which is not running on the
local computer in the family room, but on a computer literally out in the
garage).
I don't worry about "leaving messages on the server". Mercury/32 includes an
IMAP server. All of my messages are stored on the computer out in the
garage. I don't use POP3 to access them. Pegasus Mail doesn't require either
POP3, or IMAP, to locate messages stored out there, that computer is part of
the Pegasus Mail message store. If I want to play with another client, such
as Windows Live Mail, I just set up access using IMAP. No duplicate
downloads.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
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